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BryanM wrote:
Steamflogger Boss wrote:I know they were going to make more Haruhi too, but it was a covid casualty.
lol, animemaru.

I'm more amused by how it manages to gunk up Google's AI, than the content of their articles.

KyotoAni just flat out doesn't license other people's IP anymore. (Dunno what's up with Sound Euphonium, tho..)
First time hearing about this site so I googled it and this was on the first page lol: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments ... tire_site/

So yeah sourcing it out it may have never existed, assuming it originated from that site. God I hate the internet.
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:Jesus-kun genre
What is this?
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OmegaFlareX wrote:
Steamflogger Boss wrote:Jesus-kun genre
What is this?
When the male MC has to save all the girls in his harem. Mostly popularized by Monogatari I think.
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Man, Haruhi is so good. My brain juices are churning.
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Watched the Urusei Yatsura reboot. It was pretty good.
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Perused some old school titles on Amazon. Wound up watching something non-comittal: Metal Skin Panic Madox-01. The nerds back in the day always shit on it. I'm sure people do now, too. Sure, it's pretty dumb, but looking back I miss being able to invest 40 minutes of watching a dude get stuck in a mech while desperately late to meet his ho and work things out. FWIW, the geographic settings are somewhat accurate - down to the NS Building where the climax takes place. Not the best rendition of it, but the walkways atop the 30 or so story atrium are indeed there.

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Udderdude wrote:Watched the Urusei Yatsura reboot. It was pretty good.
Had no idea this was happening. I'm sure I'll get to it in like 10 years, but glad the character design looks very faithful to the source material. Wish she still made interesting stuff!
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GaijinPunch wrote:Perused some old school titles on Amazon. Wound up watching something non-comittal: Metal Skin Panic Madox-01. The nerds back in the day always shit on it. I'm sure people do now, too. Sure, it's pretty dumb, but looking back I miss being able to invest 40 minutes of watching a dude get stuck in a mech while desperately late to meet his ho and work things out. FWIW, the geographic settings are somewhat accurate - down to the NS Building where the climax takes place. Not the best rendition of it, but the walkways atop the 30 or so story atrium are indeed there.

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The animation in this slaps tbh. Fun enough for a short watch like you said.
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Video game adoptions tend universally be misses. Either a confusing mess of a bunch of characters not doing anything interesting crammed together in a 20 minute ad. Or just a literal stripped-down re-telling of a video game plot at best, like Persona 4.

Cygames' animes tend to be a little bit better than that though. Granted I've only seen the first Rage of Bahamut series, and Zombieland Saga isn't a game yet...

This reminds me that back when that Tokimeki Memorial youtube review dropped, I tried watching a couple episodes of Tokimeki Memorial Only Love. I was kind of amazed at how toned down and unzazzified its cast was compared to modern times. And kind of liked how stupid and gimmicky the teachers were, like straight out of Persona 3.

The funniest part is this: It existed to advertise the game Tokimeki Memorial Online. The game shut down like two months after its anime finished airing.
Udderdude wrote:Watched the Urusei Yatsura reboot. It was pretty good.
I think I'll give it a shot if it gets a dub. I don't think I've seen a true pure magical girlfriend series since Ah My Goddess, and I like how the art on this isn't the Modern Anime Standard. There's some S curves on that girl's face.
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GaijinPunch wrote:Perused some old school titles on Amazon. Wound up watching something non-comittal: Metal Skin Panic Madox-01.
Madox is great fun! I always feel like watching Black Magic M-66 (1987), after. Another sharply-animated thriller about hapless civilians getting mixed up with HARDCORE KILLING TECHNOLOGY, with a similarly efficient runtime. Loosely adapted from the Masamune Shirow manga, lots of his trademark sleek-yet-grounded future tech. The animation on the titular menaces is fuckin rad, eerie stuff.
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Agreed w/ both Steamflogger & BIL. BM66 is up for a revisit (35 years later!) soon. I look back at these as more of a cultural statement - I have no doubt OVA's took off b/c Japan had so much fucking money. Goofy idea? 45 minute run time? Straight to video? Sure, what could go wrong? Now that I know more about business in Japan, I am not surprised to learn that a lot of these animation studios were just a handful of guys working out of a mansion (condo) in some unassuming neighborhood in Tokyo. Toaplan started as such, in Yoyogi - home at a few different points in time to such legends as yours truly.
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God bless the bubble, eh? Image I dread to think how uncool I'd have been without VG and animu :cool: Mighta caught fuckin crabs :shock:
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The 45 minute OVA is the Lord's work. Madox coming soon on BD thanks to Animego via Kickstarter, like the last few they did. Hard to swallow for 35 bucks though imo. Hopefully like Bubblegum Crisis it'll eventually be produced in higher numbers with a lower price.
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My fav. part is when he tries to eat ramen when stuck in the suit .. funny as hell.
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BryanM wrote:I think I'll give it a shot if it gets a dub. I don't think I've seen a true pure magical girlfriend series since Ah My Goddess, and I like how the art on this isn't the Modern Anime Standard. There's some S curves on that girl's face.
I'm pretty stoked for the original being released in the US on bluray.
GaijinPunch wrote:Agreed w/ both Steamflogger & BIL. BM66 is up for a revisit (35 years later!) soon. I look back at these as more of a cultural statement - I have no doubt OVA's took off b/c Japan had so much fucking money. Goofy idea? 45 minute run time? Straight to video? Sure, what could go wrong? Now that I know more about business in Japan, I am not surprised to learn that a lot of these animation studios were just a handful of guys working out of a mansion (condo) in some unassuming neighborhood in Tokyo. Toaplan started as such, in Yoyogi - home at a few different points in time to such legends as yours truly.
Hell yeah, that was a better time for anime. Some of the stuff that did get more than 1 episode were absolute bangers too like BGC and Giant Robo.
drauch wrote:The 45 minute OVA is the Lord's work. Madox coming soon on BD thanks to Animego via Kickstarter, like the last few they did. Hard to swallow for 35 bucks though imo. Hopefully like Bubblegum Crisis it'll eventually be produced in higher numbers with a lower price.
I backed the KS and have had it in hand for awhile. Watched it on the projector. Gorgeous.

Don't think we will see most of their other titles get a rerelease. BGC did THE NUMBERS for them.
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I admittedly haven't checked in a while. That's a shame. Looks like just Megazone other than BGC. Glad they're still doing all of this good stuff, but a bummer it's all Kickstarter. The rights must be crazy high, but also they're a mere shadow of what the company used to be like when they just did DVDs, releasing both live-action and anime. There's so many boutique labels now putting out some really crazy stuff, 4K even, way more niche than this, so I imagine a lot of it has got to be the rights prices to do just a KS run. With how Discotek has grown, I wouldn't be shocked to see some of these way down the road again.
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I'm just happy they're being released, kickstarter or not. Sometimes I feel the crowdsourcing procedure or pipeline is somewhat tiring. I might not care a ton about reading posts about pins or patches or which artwork for the cover etc but that might simply be a result of how much I trust companies like RightStuf to deliver a product in the end that I can't help but to think of "backing" as simply putting a pre-order in. The transparency is something I should be happy about, even if it doesn't really interest me.

Speaking of Madox, that ending song is nice with the sax kicking in. Nothing special just a pleasant simple little melody.
drauch wrote:There's so many boutique labels now putting out some really crazy stuff, 4K even, way more niche than this...
I'm actually a little worried about this - I'm so behind the times right now that my living room doesn't feature a 4K TV or a compatible player and I'm fairly sure my AV receiver doesn't properly support pass-through on the new formats with HDR and what not.
I kept thinking that if I picked up a PS5 I would upgrade everything but I've sunk that money into my computer instead... :mrgreen: It just made more sense to considering where I spend my alone time.
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Steamflogger Boss wrote: Hell yeah, that was a better time for anime. Some of the stuff that did get more than 1 episode were absolute bangers too like BGC and Giant Robo.'
Giant Robo is quality by just about any standards. I don't think the 50's was geek chic or hipster cool ever, but it somehow pulled it off (in the 90s no less). And the fact that there was like what... 3 years between episode 6 and 7? No joke I had gone from overweight nerd in the US to underweight gaijin clubbing in Tokyo til noon every weekend that didn't give two fucks about anime in that time. I remember it being a bitch for me to track down that last episode just so I could have some closure, and of course barely remembering anything of episodes 1-6.
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drauch wrote:There's so many boutique labels now putting out some really crazy stuff, 4K even, way more niche than this...
I'm actually a little worried about this - I'm so behind the times right now that my living room doesn't feature a 4K TV or a compatible player and I'm fairly sure my AV receiver doesn't properly support pass-through on the new formats with HDR and what not.
I kept thinking that if I picked up a PS5 I would upgrade everything but I've sunk that money into my computer instead... :mrgreen: It just made more sense to considering where I spend my alone time.
Eh, don't be. I assume you have a Bluray player at least? 4K is great, but it's not such a substantial jump like Standard to 1080P where it's night and day. Not downplaying it -- it's great! -- but I don't find it a necessity like HD imo. (Except 4K porn or bust)
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drauch wrote:There's so many boutique labels now putting out some really crazy stuff, 4K even, way more niche than this...
I'm actually a little worried about this - I'm so behind the times right now that my living room doesn't feature a 4K TV or a compatible player and I'm fairly sure my AV receiver doesn't properly support pass-through on the new formats with HDR and what not.
I kept thinking that if I picked up a PS5 I would upgrade everything but I've sunk that money into my computer instead... :mrgreen: It just made more sense to considering where I spend my alone time.
Eh, don't be. I assume you have a Bluray player at least? 4K is great, but it's not such a substantial jump like Standard to 1080P where it's night and day. Not downplaying it -- it's great! -- but I don't find it a necessity like HD imo. (Except 4K porn or bust)
That's about what I've heard. I was mostly worried if there comes a time when boutique old school anime only releases on 4K and there's no regular BD available anymore. I'm sure that's still far in the future.
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Steamflogger Boss wrote: Hell yeah, that was a better time for anime. Some of the stuff that did get more than 1 episode were absolute bangers too like BGC and Giant Robo.'
Giant Robo is quality by just about any standards. I don't think the 50's was geek chic or hipster cool ever, but it somehow pulled it off (in the 90s no less). And the fact that there was like what... 3 years between episode 6 and 7? No joke I had gone from overweight nerd in the US to underweight gaijin clubbing in Tokyo til noon every weekend that didn't give two fucks about anime in that time. I remember it being a bitch for me to track down that last episode just so I could have some closure, and of course barely remembering anything of episodes 1-6.
It's one of my favorite anime ever. Probably top 10.
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Eh, don't be. I assume you have a Bluray player at least? 4K is great, but it's not such a substantial jump like Standard to 1080P where it's night and day. Not downplaying it -- it's great! -- but I don't find it a necessity like HD imo. (Except 4K porn or bust)
That's about what I've heard. I was mostly worried if there comes a time when boutique old school anime only releases on 4K and there's no regular BD available anymore. I'm sure that's still far in the future.
Yeah I would not worry about this at all. A lot of anime barely benefits from bluray (even now some blurays are sdbd, which at least saves plastic), I feel like it should be the final physical release format for most.
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Hot take: Endless Eight would have been awesome at say, three episodes.
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Anyone heard of this one? This was published in 1976-1977. Sounds like a crazed AI text generator wrote this up. lol

https://myanimelist.net/manga/107877/Ch ... Otoko_Ryuu

"Chijou Saikyou no Otoko Ryuu

Karate fighter Raion Ryuu is so unflinchingly powerful that, during a sanctioned match, his strikes accidentally explode his opponent into piles of steaming meat. As punishment he dons a sutra-infused mask to suppress his horrific might and goes into hiding with his psychic sister, but the two are eventually hunted down by his ex-master and the fiancé of the man Ryuu killed. While their modus operandi would appear to be revenge, they follow divine instructions from up above—destroy Ryuu before he can awaken as the Antichrist! God himself has put out a hit on our masked hero."
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drauch wrote:
Udderdude wrote:Watched the Urusei Yatsura reboot. It was pretty good.
Had no idea this was happening. I'm sure I'll get to it in like 10 years, but glad the character design looks very faithful to the source material. Wish she still made interesting stuff!
Yep, it's legit, really enjoyed it.

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Even has touches of modern tech, like smartphones and skype. :lol:
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That's clearly advanced alien technology, lol.
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Udderdude wrote:Anyone heard of this one? This was published in 1976-1977. Sounds like a crazed AI text generator wrote this up. lol

https://myanimelist.net/manga/107877/Ch ... Otoko_Ryuu

"Chijou Saikyou no Otoko Ryuu

Karate fighter Raion Ryuu is so unflinchingly powerful that, during a sanctioned match, his strikes accidentally explode his opponent into piles of steaming meat. As punishment he dons a sutra-infused mask to suppress his horrific might and goes into hiding with his psychic sister, but the two are eventually hunted down by his ex-master and the fiancé of the man Ryuu killed. While their modus operandi would appear to be revenge, they follow divine instructions from up above—destroy Ryuu before he can awaken as the Antichrist! God himself has put out a hit on our masked hero."
Read the first issue, thought it seemed alright in its bootleg Go Nagai way... skipped ahead and it seems they ran out of cash? :lol: Maybe it was a dream sequence. That was one quality steaming meat body explosion though, holy fuck! On par with anything in Hokuto no Ken - love how after the dude's whole fuckin face splits open, and his brain explodes, they go to the trouble of showing his leg break so he can fall over. :lol:
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Udderdude wrote:Grancrest Senki
Got around to starting this and really enjoying it. Yeah it's a bit rushed but if anything can make me appreciate this kind of pacing it's most other anime lol.
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Bocchi the Rock is one of the best shows airing this season. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cringe into another dimension.

I also started watching the Golgo 13 2008 anime. Pretty good so far.
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Urusei Yatsura 2022 is really pretty. I love the way it looks so much. Lum's hair is unreasonably eye-catching in particular.

A buddy of mine got me to watch Akiba Maid War, which is about violent underground yakuza shit laying beneath the cutesy facade of maid cafes. It's funny, it's stylish, and it's interesting enough so far.
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null1024 wrote:Urusei Yatsura 2022 is really pretty.
How are you watching these? I can't seem to find a streaming service for it (via JustWatch). Fansubs?
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